Calendar 2018

Women at the Midnight Hour

The celebration of 70 years of India’s independence is an appropriate occasion to remember women members of the Constituent Assembly formed in 1946 to debate and draft a constitution for a soon-to- be independent India. Among the 299 members, 15 were women. They were: Ammu Swaminathan, Annie Mascarane, Begum Aizaz Rasul, Dakshayani Velayudhan, Durgabai Deshmukh, Hansa Mehta, Kamla Chaudhri, Leela Roy, Malati Choudhury, Purnima Banerji, Raj Kumari Amrit Kaur, Renuka Ray, Sarojini Naidu, Sucheta Kripalani and Vijaya Lakshmi Pandit. For CWDS’ 2018 calendar, we have selected to focus on two members who came from completely different backgrounds, Dakshayani Velayudhan and Vijaya Lakshmi Pandit.